GOProud executive director Jimmy LaSalvia on same-sex ballot initiatives in Maryland, Maine and Washington and whether the country is turning a page on the issue. Photo: Getty Images

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... I ... the GOP and gay marriage which was on ... a number of ballot initiatives and some states around the country and my next guest is ... the stuff that is Jimmy well some of the old out welcome Jamaican hearing ... yes I did read ... up thanks for joining us now this issue of the knob ... four states ... on balance I believe and on the turnout ... the the the outcome I should say what somewhat different from what we've seen in the past cracked ... I think that anybody who has followed this tissue over the past number of years ... and is hence even though the polling has been moving on and on the issue same sex marriage and and and you know I think that ... we all been talking about when it isn't going to cross the line and and that happened on Tuesday ... of weeks I seem polls ... throughout this year that showed the majority of Americans ... especially younger Americans who support same sex marriage and so was just a matter of time ... before that translated ... to a passing same sex marriage ... at the ballot box and in state legislatures will get to work where it passed in Maryland in Maine ... and it was on the ballot and two other states mostly up and let ... it pass it made on two main candidates just now ... it looks like it's going to pass in Washington they were counterbalance until ... very recently so you'll pass ... to have it seems that marriage legal in those three states and they did ... Minnesota there was a question ... about whether to ban same sex marriage in their constitutional and a constitutional amendment was rejected ok ... well there's been a lot of pop ... in the aftermath of Tuesday about the GOP coalition needing ... to reach school reform expand ... um is this an issue that could attract gay voters to the deal ... well I think that the voters are certainly some money to ... is is a potential Republican donor ... Mitt Romney lost from ... now it's four percent of that ... the voters got a four percent fewer again owners than John McCain gets its bigger than just that it's young people ... and women ... you know that for instance ... Mitt Romney one in every single age group except eighteen to twenty nine and ended up losing to that ... end ... an example I said in a number of times in the ... last couple weeks is ... singer Kelly Clarkson a single woman who ... was asked was he was on her tour on Tuesday with what he or she said while the Republican at heart I'll probably go for Obama because I have a loving a friend ... and so I think that this is an issue that everyone is considering ... an especially because everyone has a friends and family up ... and we have about a minute left I wanted ask you about this rule that ballot initiative group ... verses the call for room and and I guess the example there's HAL Roe v Wade in the abortion issue was decided ... in which route you think is preferable ... I he I think they're designing this state by state basis is of course the preferable in state legislatures ... and to our elected representatives in the ballot measures to I think it the ended the day though there will be my many other issues the court ruling that brings ... the the mid eighteen states over but ... I'm a bit disgusting is on the state level is where marriage and family must be different and and that is up ... the